Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
AL PACINOPeople 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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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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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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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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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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