black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.

Al Pacino

There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
AL PACINO

Close Closer Enemy Father Friend Keep Many Room Taught Thing
Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
AL PACINO

Attach Encourage Interest Project Studio
You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
AL PACINO

After Anybody Film Less Movie Onstage Over Together Until You
I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
AL PACINO

Happy Much Perform Turn Very
Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
AL PACINO

Alive Come Director Great Pace Scene Stag Understand Way
So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
AL PACINO

Always Certain Grew Relationship Something Want Work
I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
AL PACINO

Admire Always Comedian Myself People Think
The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
AL PACINO

Deal Machine Movie Much Orchestrate Play Source Wire Word
I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
AL PACINO

Break Constant New Something Strive Through Try
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.
AL PACINO

Along Artist Great Paint People Remind Sense Something
When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
AL PACINO

Audience Back Come Extraordinary Thing Giving Perform You
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 failure, too.
AL PACINO

Always Early Even Fail Failure Felt Kind Misunderstood On
You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
AL PACINO

Cash Puttin Register Say Sudden Talk
There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
AL PACINO

Actor Air Country Great Name Once Play Show Sleep Stage Summer
My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
AL PACINO

Grandfather Joy Kind Life Provider Work
My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
AL PACINO

Come Euthanasia Something Weakness Wish

I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Al Pacino Quotes