I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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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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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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