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.
AL PACINOSometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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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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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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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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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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