A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
AL PACINOI’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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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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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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