Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
AL PACINOI went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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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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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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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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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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