That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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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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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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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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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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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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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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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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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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