Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
AL PACINOIt’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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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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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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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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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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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.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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