I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
AL PACINOI want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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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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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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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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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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