Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
AL PACINOYou need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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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…
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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