I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
It would be hard to play a character you don't like - for me anyway - or can't find something in them… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, "The Sea… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I'm an actor, and everything about me - the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world - has… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that.… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it's not until the last two… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don't trust reading the scripts that much. I try to get… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they're not used to?… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about this is I don't know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
We're charlatans in a way, we're magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would've wanted to play 10… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I remember acting in a school play about the melting pot when I was very little. There was a great big pot… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I personally think if you're given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I would say I am more concerned with the plays I'm going to do than the movies. I'm more comfortable in a… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Take a look at Israel's history and you would know who the terrorist is. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
Failure's relative. I've always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something's not right about that. It's how you treat… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn't want to do movies that much. I found they took a lot… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
My first language was shy. Its only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
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