There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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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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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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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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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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