I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
AL PACINOThe 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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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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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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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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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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