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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.

Al Pacino

You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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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 once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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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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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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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’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.

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