The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
AL PACINOThat was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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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.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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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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Without coffee something’s missing
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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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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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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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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