The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
AL PACINOThey made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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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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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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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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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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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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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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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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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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