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.
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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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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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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 learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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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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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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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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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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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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