I probably write a poem every 50 years.
AL PACINOIf you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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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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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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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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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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