You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
AL PACINOThe camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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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.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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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 younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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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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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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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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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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