It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
AL PACINOThere are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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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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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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There 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.
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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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