Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
AL PACINOSometimes 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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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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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 is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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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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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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