When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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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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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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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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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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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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