We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
AL PACINO“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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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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