My first language was shy. It's only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes cope language learn
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers. Al Pacino actorathleteemotional Change image and share on social
My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing. Al Pacino askpausestrength Change image and share on social
My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother. Al Pacino armycollegedad share on social
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. Antonin Artaud beggarchatterincomprehensible Change image and share on social
If I'm serious, yes, I'd like to have done what Shakespeare did... to act and write. You learn so much from acting. One of our great writers, Alan Bennett, does both supremely well. When I write a story, I tend to speak it aloud as I'm writing it. Michael Morpurgo actalanaloud share on social
And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right. Alan Shepard basicallybusinesscope share on social