It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
AL PACINOI think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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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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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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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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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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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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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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