Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
AL PACINOMy best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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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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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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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.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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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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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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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 never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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