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.
AL PACINOIf something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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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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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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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.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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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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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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