I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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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.
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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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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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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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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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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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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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