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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More Al Pacino Quotes
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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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 found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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