The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
AL PACINOI destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in 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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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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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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A lot of acting is private time.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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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 had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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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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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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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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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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