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.
AL PACINOsometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
More Al Pacino Quotes
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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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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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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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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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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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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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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