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.
AL PACINOI’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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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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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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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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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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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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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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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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