I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
AL PACINOThe hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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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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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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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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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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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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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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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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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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