If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
AL PACINOOr try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
More Al Pacino Quotes
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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Without coffee something’s missing
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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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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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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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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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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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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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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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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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