You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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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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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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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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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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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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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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