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 PACINOThe fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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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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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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