If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
AL PACINOI’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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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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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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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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