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.
AL PACINOI love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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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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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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