The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
AL PACINOIf something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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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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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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