I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
AL PACINOWe’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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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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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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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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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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