If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
AL PACINOI used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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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.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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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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Without coffee something’s missing
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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