So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
AL PACINOIt’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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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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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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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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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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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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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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