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.
AL PACINO“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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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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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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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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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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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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