Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
AL PACINOWhen 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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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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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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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 love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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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’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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