Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
AL PACINOI’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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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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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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