Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
AL PACINOGreat 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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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 naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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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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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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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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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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I 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.
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