The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
AL PACINOI guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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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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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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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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