The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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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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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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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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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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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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