It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
AL PACINOThe fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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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.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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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 found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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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’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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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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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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