When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
AL PACINOYou take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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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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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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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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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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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.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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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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