I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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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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 personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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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.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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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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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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 thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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