“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
AL PACINOSometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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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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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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