What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
AL PACINOThere’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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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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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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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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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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