A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
AL PACINOI am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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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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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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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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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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