There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
AL PACINOMy children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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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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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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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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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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