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.
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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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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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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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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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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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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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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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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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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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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