When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
AL PACINOIf I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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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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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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