I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
AL PACINOChekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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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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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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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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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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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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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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