Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
AL PACINOThere are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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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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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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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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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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