The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
AL PACINOIs it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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 do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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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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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot 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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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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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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