That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
AL PACINOI did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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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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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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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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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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