And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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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 wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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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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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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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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