When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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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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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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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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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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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.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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