We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
AL PACINOWhen you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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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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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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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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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.
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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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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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