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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More Al Pacino Quotes
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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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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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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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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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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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.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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