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.
Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
![Al Pacino Quote - I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/i-havent-encouraged-julia-marie-pacino-or-discoura-683x1024.jpg)
![Al Pacino Quote - [Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/julie-marie-pacinois-a-great-ballplayer-which-i-wa-683x1024.jpg)
