Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
AL PACINOActing is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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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.
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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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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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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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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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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 don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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