My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
AL PACINOWhether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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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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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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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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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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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 was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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