There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
AL PACINOI always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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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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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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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.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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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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