I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
AL PACINOSo I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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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.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about 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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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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