The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
AL PACINOI always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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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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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 found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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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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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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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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