There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
AL PACINOWaiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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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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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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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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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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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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