After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
AL PACINOIf I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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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’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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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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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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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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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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