I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
AL PACINOWomen have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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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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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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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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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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