At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
AL PACINOLarry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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 actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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