Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
AL PACINOShow me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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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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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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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’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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There 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.”
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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