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.
AL PACINOForget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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Either I act or I die.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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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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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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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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A lot of acting is private time.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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