It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
AL PACINOAt this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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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.
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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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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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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 used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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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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