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 PACINOThe problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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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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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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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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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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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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