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.
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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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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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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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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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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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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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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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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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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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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