Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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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’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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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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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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