To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
AL PACINOI never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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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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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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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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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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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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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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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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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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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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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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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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