I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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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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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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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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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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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