I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
AL PACINOGreat directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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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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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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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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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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