There 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.
AL PACINOI didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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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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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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