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.
AL PACINOI’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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