At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
AL PACINOI always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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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 fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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