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.
AL PACINOI didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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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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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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The 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.
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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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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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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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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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