When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
AL PACINOAny project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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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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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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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.
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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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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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