I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
AL PACINOI don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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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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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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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.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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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 was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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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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Read 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.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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