There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
AL PACINOTo be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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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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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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