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.
AL PACINOIt had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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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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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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