I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
AL PACINOOur ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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