I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
AL PACINOI found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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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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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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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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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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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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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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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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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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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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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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