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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More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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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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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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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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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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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.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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