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.
AL PACINOSometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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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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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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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 don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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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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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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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.
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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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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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