You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
AL PACINOMy early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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The 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.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Either I act or I die.
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