If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
AL PACINOI turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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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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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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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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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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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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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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