The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
AL PACINOThe 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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Great 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.
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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 didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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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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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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