I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
AL PACINOA lot of acting is private time.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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It’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.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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