Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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 was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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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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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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