Actually, 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.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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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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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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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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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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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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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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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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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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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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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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