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.
AL PACINOFrancis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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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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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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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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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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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