Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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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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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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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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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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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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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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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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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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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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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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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 was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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