I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
AL PACINOI picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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I’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.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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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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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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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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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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