My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
AL PACINO“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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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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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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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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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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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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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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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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