We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
AL PACINOFrancis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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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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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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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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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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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 just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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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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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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