So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
AL PACINOEverything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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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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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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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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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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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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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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