I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
AL PACINOEither we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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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 wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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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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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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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.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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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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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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