You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
AL PACINOThe reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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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.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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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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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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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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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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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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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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