I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
AL PACINOI’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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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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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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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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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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