I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
AL PACINOEarly 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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You’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.
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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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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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