My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
AL PACINOYou’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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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 did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume 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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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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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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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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