Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
AL PACINOYou never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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You 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.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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Either I act or I die.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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