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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More Al Pacino Quotes
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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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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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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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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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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