I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
AL PACINOIt’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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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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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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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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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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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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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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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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