Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
AL PACINOAnybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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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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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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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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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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