You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
AL PACINOShakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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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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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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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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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 had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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