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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.

Al Pacino

We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
AL PACINO

Charlatan Experience Feel Long People Play Scene Stuff Way
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.
AL PACINO

After Anybody Film Less Movie Onstage Over Together Until You
I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
AL PACINO

Controversy Feel Go Person Provoke Risk Something Take Wherever
Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
AL PACINO

Close Grandfather Kind Like People Relationship
You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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Cash Puttin Register Say Sudden Talk
Great 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.
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Alive Come Director Great Pace Scene Stag Understand Way
The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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Anodynes Bath Need Some Times Truth Word
My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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Come Euthanasia Something Weakness Wish
I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
AL PACINO

Another Beyond Find Genuflect Higher Obe Pedestal Use Used Way Woman
I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
AL PACINO

Loud Movie Play Read Record Script Some Together
I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
AL PACINO

Come Destroy Longer Unconcious
It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
AL PACINO

Cut Direction Door Evocative First Hear Open Stage Thing Visualize Walk
I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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Maid Out Paper Scrap Threw
On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
AL PACINO

Give Gonna Lose Man Point Sunday Win
When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
AL PACINO

Being Do Home Look Love Remember Sacrifice Time
Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
AL PACINO

Alone Director Forgot Represent Stand Surf Wait

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