That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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 was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in 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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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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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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