It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
AL PACINOPeople 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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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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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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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 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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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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