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.
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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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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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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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’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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