[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
AL PACINOI don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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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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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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