I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
AL PACINOWhen you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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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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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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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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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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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.
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