Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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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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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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