When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
AL PACINOI never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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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 literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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