It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
AL PACINOI was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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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 used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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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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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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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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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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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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