Picture of Al Pacino

"To do anything is scary for me. To do a movie, to do a play. When you take a chance you're as good as the chances you take so, it's a chance to fall. And also it's a little frightening to go into yourself and commit yourself, take the responsibility of it, take hold of the reins and say, I'm somebody and I've got this to say and I've got that to say here it is. The most exciting thing about it - and I found this out recently - is that opportunity to change, to go through an experience and come out of a different. I like working in the theater at night because it makes my day. It's a focal point. I read more, I see more people, I have a better time... Of course I die when I have to go there at night, but still and all, in the end.... I want it to end, I want the run to be over, but every time it is, I miss it, and I go back to it. It makes for a life - change and routine. You know you've someplace to go to, where you're going to take a chance, walk upon the wire." -Al, 1975

Al as Arturo Ui from on the cover of the Playbill for The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1975)