When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
AL PACINOThe only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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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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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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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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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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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 would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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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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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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