You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
AL PACINOI’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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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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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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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.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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