You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
AL PACINOWhether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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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.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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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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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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