If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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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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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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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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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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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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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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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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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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