I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
AL PACINOBrian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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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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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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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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