I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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