They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
AL PACINOGreat 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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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 are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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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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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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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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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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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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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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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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