My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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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Without coffee something’s missing
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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 don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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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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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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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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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 are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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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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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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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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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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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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