I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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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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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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