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.
AL PACINOIf you get all tangled up, just tango on.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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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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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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