When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
AL PACINOI had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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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 don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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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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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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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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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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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 don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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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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