I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
AL PACINOThe 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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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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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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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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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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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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