Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
AL PACINOThe play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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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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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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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.
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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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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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