Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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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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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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