I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
AL PACINOI understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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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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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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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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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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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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