And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
AL PACINOThe problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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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 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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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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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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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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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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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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