Al Pacino Quotes, Children Quotes, Humble Quotes

At this point in my career, I don't have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things. My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.

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I'm always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain't bad. You can meet people on it.

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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life. So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.

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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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You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.

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You need some insecurity if you're an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven't yet started to think about retiring. I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.

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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it's just great fodder for you. It's wonderful source stuff that we die for.

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I don't need bodyguards. I'm from the South Bronx.

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The fruit falls off the tree. You don't shake it off before it's ready to fall.

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Acting is hard work. At times, it's very energizing and enervating. It's childish. It's also responsible. It's illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It's bizarre, diabolical. It's exciting.

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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.

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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. It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.

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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. There's something to learn from it. I've had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures: What kind of failure was it? A failure because it's misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?

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It wasn't until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.

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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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There are a couple of times I would've liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.

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I'm much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I've always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me. I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.

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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I'm going to do than the movies. I'm more comfortable in a play. In film, there's always a certain sense of control, of holding back. The stage is different ; there's more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.

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I wouldn't be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast. Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.

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