I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
AL PACINOI don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
AL PACINOA lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
AL PACINOOr try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
AL PACINOWomen have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
AL PACINOYou’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
AL PACINOIt’s not personal, it’s strictly business
AL PACINOThere are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
AL PACINOI found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
AL PACINOWhen I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
AL PACINORomantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
AL PACINOVanity: my favorite sin.
AL PACINOIt’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
AL PACINOYou’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
AL PACINOYou 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.
AL PACINOI can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
AL PACINOA good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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