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 PACINOYou’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from 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 was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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