Al Pacino reveals fame made him feel ‘out of place’ and skipped Oscars due to ‘fear’
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Al Pacino reveals fame made him feel ‘out of place’ and skipped Oscars due to ‘fear’

Elaborating further, he continued: “Because feeling out of place is a weird feeling. I mean not being able to function because you don’t know the language, in a sense it’s an unsafe place to be. And I experienced that a few times because that I was very famous and couldn’t even. And then I started experiencing it before I was even nominated for an Oscar. And I remember, I actually won the award, some amazing award, and I was in Boston doing a play, and I lived above the director’s house, he gave me a room in his house, and I remember waking up and he said, “You won the National Board of Review Award for acting in The Godfather,” and I remember saying to him then , “wow sure that’s cool”. I said, ‘Do you know a psychiatrist I can see?’ Right out of my mouth, because that was the state I was in!”