The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
AL PACINOThere are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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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.
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I 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.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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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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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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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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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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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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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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