Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
AL PACINOIt was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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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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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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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.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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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 put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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