You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
AL PACINOI want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Without coffee something’s missing
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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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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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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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’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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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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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.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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