It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
AL PACINOThere are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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Either I act or I die.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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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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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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