People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
AL PACINOWhen I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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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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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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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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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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