Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
AL PACINOFreedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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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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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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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 destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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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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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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