There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
AL PACINOI personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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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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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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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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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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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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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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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 haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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