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.
AL PACINOI used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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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 don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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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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[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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