Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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