My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
AL PACINOHere 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 once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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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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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 camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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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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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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