I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
AL PACINOI did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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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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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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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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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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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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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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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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