The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
AL PACINOI went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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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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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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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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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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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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