You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
AL PACINOI did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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The 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.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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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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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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