I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
AL PACINOAll due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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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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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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