There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
AL PACINOI’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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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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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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