The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
AL PACINOWomen have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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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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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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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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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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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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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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