Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
AL PACINOYou don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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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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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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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 was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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