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.
AL PACINOActors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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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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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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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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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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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 had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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