So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
AL PACINOIt surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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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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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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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.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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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 have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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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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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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