The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
AL PACINOSometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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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 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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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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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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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’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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