I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
AL PACINOYou try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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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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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 do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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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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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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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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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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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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