Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
AL PACINOThe problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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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 just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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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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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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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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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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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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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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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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