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.
AL PACINOShow me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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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 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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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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