Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
AL PACINOIt’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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Either I act or I die.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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