I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
AL PACINOTake a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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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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