Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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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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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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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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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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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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Either I act or I die.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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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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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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