Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
AL PACINOShow me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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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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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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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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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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