There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
AL PACINOI am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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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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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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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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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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Either I act or I die.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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