And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
AL PACINOTo be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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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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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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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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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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