All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
AL PACINOLee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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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 do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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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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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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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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