It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
AL PACINOA lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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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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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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