Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
AL PACINOWhen I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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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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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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