I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
AL PACINOI did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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