Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
AL PACINOI wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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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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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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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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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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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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Either I act or I die.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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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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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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