I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
AL PACINOIt’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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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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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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I 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.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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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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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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