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.
AL PACINOThere was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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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 don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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