I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
AL PACINOI’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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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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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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 I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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Read 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.
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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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