I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
AL PACINOThere was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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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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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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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.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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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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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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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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