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.
AL PACINOIt’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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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