Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
AL PACINOActually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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