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.
AL PACINOI’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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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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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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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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Either I act or I die.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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