Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
AL PACINOI did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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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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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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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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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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