Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
AL PACINOYou sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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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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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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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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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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