I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
AL PACINORead it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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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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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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