When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
AL PACINOIt used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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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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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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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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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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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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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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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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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.
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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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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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