Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
AL PACINOI’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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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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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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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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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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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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