I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
AL PACINOIf I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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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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Any 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.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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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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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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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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