Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
AL PACINOThe interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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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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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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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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