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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More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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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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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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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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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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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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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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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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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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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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