I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
AL PACINOI’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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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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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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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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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 want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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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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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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