A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
AL PACINOYou 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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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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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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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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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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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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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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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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