I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
AL PACINOIt’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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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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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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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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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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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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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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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 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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