I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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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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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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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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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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