“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
AL PACINOThe interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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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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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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