I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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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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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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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 always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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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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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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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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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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