There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
AL PACINO“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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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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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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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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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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