You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
AL PACINOI wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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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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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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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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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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