On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man? Al Pacino More Quotes by Al Pacino More Quotes From Al Pacino 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, or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience? Al Pacino opportunity trying mean I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part. Al Pacino interviews want interesting Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It's a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It's sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument. Al Pacino mimicry real doe Whether he's doing great acting or not, you're seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor. 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 Pacino actors acting doe I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn't good enough. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid. Al Pacino player baseball kids You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is. Al Pacino shots mouths knows I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament. Al Pacino artist play thinking I've often said there's two kinds of actors. There's a more gregarious type and the shy type. Al Pacino shy actors two When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens. Al Pacino reading play happens What's this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare? Al Pacino theatre I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets. Al Pacino streets theater alive All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be, I am a dancer. But I don't think I would be on 'Dancing with the Stars,' mainly because I would be too shy. Al Pacino dancing stars thinking Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing. Al Pacino scripts responsibility character The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you. Al Pacino upset littles people Actors are always outsiders. It's necessary to be able to interpret - and that gets distorted when you become famous. Al Pacino outsiders able actors [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. Al Pacino four film wanted I'm naturally shy but I've done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think. Al Pacino get-better shy thinking 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. I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it. Al Pacino style italian acting [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. So I've been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them. Al Pacino ocean opportunity kids I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don't know how long she'll run away from it, but it's there in her. Al Pacino daughter running long
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