I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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