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 used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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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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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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We’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.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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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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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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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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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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