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.
AL PACINOAnd then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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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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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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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’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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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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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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