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 PACINOActually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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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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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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The 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.
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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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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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