It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
AL PACINOI’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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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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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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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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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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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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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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