The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
AL PACINOThe hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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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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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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