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.
AL PACINODrinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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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.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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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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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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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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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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