A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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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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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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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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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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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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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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