I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
AL PACINOBeing the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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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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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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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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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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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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