My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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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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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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