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.
AL PACINOActually, 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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