I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
AL PACINOYou’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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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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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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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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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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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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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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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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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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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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