Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
AL PACINOI’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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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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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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