I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
AL PACINOEverything 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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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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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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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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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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