A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
AL PACINOI found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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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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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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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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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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