Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
AL PACINOOpinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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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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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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