If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
AL PACINOThere are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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Either I act or I die.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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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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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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