The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
AL PACINOEarly 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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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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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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Their 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.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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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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