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.
AL PACINOA lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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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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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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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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All I am is what I’m going after.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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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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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 don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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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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