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Al Pacino279 quotes“Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.”
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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.
Al PacinoAl Pacino 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.
Al PacinoAl Pacino I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
Al PacinoAl Pacino My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
Al PacinoAl Pacino I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
Al PacinoAl Pacino Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
Al PacinoAl Pacino A lot of acting is private time.
Al PacinoAl Pacino It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
Al PacinoAl Pacino Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
Al PacinoAl Pacino The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
Al PacinoAl Pacino I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
Al PacinoAl Pacino It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
Al PacinoAl Pacino I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
Al PacinoAl Pacino To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
Al PacinoAl Pacino If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
Al PacinoAl Pacino Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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