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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

Al Pacino

The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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Act Demand Different Experience More Stage Through
Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Anybody Important Writer
I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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Actor Decide Great Philosophy Someday Use Want
“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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Anything Beyond Comprehend Level Mind Person Think
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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Alone Director Forgot Represent Stand Surf Wait
I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Author Certain Do Feel Way
I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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Act Always Comedy Country Felt Help More Movie Much Style
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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Ask Autograph Country Old People Restaurant Table Talk Under Went Year
My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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Advice Careful Kid Mantra Person Want
I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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Better Done Get Much Naturally Shy Think
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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Country Cut Direction Early Movie Narrator Play Radio Read Show Stage Tape
You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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After Anybody Film Less Movie Onstage Over Together Until You
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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Around Do Dub Finally Line Loop Over Wait
I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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Extent Feeling Prefer Show Some Thought Time
There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Honesty People Reality Sense Strong
Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Cash Help Himself Illness Talk Writer

I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

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