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.
AL PACINOMy dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There 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.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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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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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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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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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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