All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
AL PACINOThe 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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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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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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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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