Al Pacino Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens.

  Al Pacino

  Reading, Play, Happens

  "New Again: Al Pacino". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, Julian Schnabel, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2012.

• A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there's a movie. It's very evocative; it's like a first cut because you hear 'She walked to the door,' and you visualize all these things. 'She opens the door' . . . because you read the stage directions, too.

  Al Pacino

  Reading, Cutting, Doors

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

• 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... I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.

  Al Pacino

  Reading, Joy, Feelings

  Lawrence Grobel, Al Pacino (2008). “Al Pacino”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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