I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
AL PACINOYou’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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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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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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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 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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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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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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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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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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