Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
AL PACINOI turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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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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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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