I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
AL PACINOThe play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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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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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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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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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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