[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
AL PACINOI had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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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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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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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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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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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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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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