“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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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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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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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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