I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
AL PACINOI’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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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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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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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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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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