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.
AL PACINOSometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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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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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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