Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
AL PACINORead it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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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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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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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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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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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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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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