I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
AL PACINOShakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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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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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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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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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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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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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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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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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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