At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
AL PACINO[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
More Al Pacino Quotes
-
-
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.
AL PACINO -
[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
AL PACINO -
Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
AL PACINO -
Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
AL PACINO -
The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
AL PACINO -
Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
AL PACINO -
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.
AL PACINO -
I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
AL PACINO -
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.
AL PACINO -
The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
AL PACINO -
All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
AL PACINO -
I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
AL PACINO -
I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
AL PACINO -
I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
AL PACINO -
Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
AL PACINO