When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
AL PACINOPlaying a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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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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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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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 always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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