Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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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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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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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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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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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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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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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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