I 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.
AL PACINOI’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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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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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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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.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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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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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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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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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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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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