Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
AL PACINOForget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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Either I act or I die.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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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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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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