Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
AL PACINOI don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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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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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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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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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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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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