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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.

Al Pacino

I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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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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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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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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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.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.

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