The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
AL PACINOI can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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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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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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