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 PACINOWhen 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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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 don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Either I act or I die.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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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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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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