So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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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