So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
AL PACINOThe play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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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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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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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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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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It 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.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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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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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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