The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
AL PACINODrinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Early 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.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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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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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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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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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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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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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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