You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
AL PACINOResponsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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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 truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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