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.
AL PACINOI once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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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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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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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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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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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.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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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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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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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.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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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 expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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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’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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Either I act or I die.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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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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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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