A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
AL PACINOThe difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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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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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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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.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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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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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 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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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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