People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
AL PACINOI learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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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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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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