Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
AL PACINOAt this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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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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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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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.
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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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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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