It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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 guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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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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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.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back 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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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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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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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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