If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
AL PACINOAt one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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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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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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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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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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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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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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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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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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