So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
AL PACINOI turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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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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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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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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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’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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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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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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