I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
AL PACINOIt’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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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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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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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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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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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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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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