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.
AL PACINOsometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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I 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.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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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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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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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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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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