I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
AL PACINOIt was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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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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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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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’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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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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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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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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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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