I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
AL PACINOWhen you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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