I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
AL PACINOSometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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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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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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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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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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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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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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