I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
AL PACINOLearning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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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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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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