Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
AL PACINOThe only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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 probably write a poem every 50 years.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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