When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
AL PACINOThe literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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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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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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When [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.
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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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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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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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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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