So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
AL PACINOOne of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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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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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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