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AL PACINOI’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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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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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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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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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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