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 PACINOIf you get all tangled up, just tango on.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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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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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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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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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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