I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
AL PACINOAnd 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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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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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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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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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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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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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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