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.
AL PACINOSometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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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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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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