I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
AL PACINOWhen you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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’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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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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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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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