Al Pacino Quotes
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What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's.
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Off-Off-Broadway is absolutely necessary. It doesn't have to be sanctioned by the state, subsidized or anything. The plank and the passion is what it's about.
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I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn't attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I'm in it, whatever that means, I'm expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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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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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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All I am is what I'm going after.
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I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. 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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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse.
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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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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that's it. Where is the moment?
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn't think I had it in me ever, and I wasn't terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties. That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he's in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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It's not personal, it's strictly business.
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They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.