They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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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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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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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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