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.
AL PACINOBeing the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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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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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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