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 PACINOI’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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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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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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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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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Either I act or I die.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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