I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
AL PACINOI would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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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.
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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 didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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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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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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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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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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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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