You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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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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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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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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It’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.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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