At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
AL PACINOCertainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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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 sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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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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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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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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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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