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Al Pacino

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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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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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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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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