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’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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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