I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
AL PACINOThere was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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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 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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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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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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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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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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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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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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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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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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