I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
AL PACINOI never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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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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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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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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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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