You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
AL PACINOIf you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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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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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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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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