The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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 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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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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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 always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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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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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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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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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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