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.
AL PACINOIt’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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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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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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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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 come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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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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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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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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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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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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