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.
AL PACINOSometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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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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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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