I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
AL PACINOTheir minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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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 was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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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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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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