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 PACINOThere is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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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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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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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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