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’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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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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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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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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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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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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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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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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