Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
AL PACINOI want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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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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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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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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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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