You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
AL PACINOI destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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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.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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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.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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