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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 Pacino

When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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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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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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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 had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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Failure Kind Misunderstood Other Yourself

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.

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