Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
AL PACINOTo be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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 like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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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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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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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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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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