I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
AL PACINOWhen [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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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 try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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