If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
AL PACINOLarry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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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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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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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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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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