They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
AL PACINOI put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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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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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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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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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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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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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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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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 didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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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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