I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
AL PACINOThere has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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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 turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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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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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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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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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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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 don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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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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