That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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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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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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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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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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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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