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.
AL PACINOI do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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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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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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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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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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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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