To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
AL PACINOI would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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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 don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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