A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
AL PACINOIf 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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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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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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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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