You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
AL PACINOWhether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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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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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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