I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
AL PACINOI could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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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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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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