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.
AL PACINOI used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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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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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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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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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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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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I 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.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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