When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
AL PACINOI went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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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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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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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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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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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