It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
AL PACINOYou take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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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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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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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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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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