There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
AL PACINOThere is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I 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.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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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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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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