It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
AL PACINOWhen you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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