I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
AL PACINOI would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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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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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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