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.
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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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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Either I act or I die.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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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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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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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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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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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.
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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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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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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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