The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
AL PACINOAt one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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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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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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