I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
AL PACINOOr try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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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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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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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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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.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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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.
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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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