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 PACINOThe play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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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.
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Either I act or I die.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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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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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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