I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
AL PACINOWe’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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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 put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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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 sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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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 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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