Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
AL PACINOAnybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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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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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’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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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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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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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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[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 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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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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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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