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.
AL PACINOI’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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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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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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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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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A lot of acting is private time.
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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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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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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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