And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
AL PACINOOur life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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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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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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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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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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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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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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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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