I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
AL PACINO- Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
AL PACINOWomen have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
AL PACINOI’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
AL PACINOYou’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
AL PACINOThe thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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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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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
AL PACINOI always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
AL PACINOI thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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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.
AL PACINOLee 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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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
AL PACINOI found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
AL PACINOI like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
AL PACINOOn any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
AL PACINOThe story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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