Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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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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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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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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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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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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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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