People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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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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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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Either I act or I die.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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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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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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