Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
AL PACINOYou’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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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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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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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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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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