I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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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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