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.
AL PACINOA lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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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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