You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
AL PACINOI don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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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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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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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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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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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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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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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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