Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
AL PACINOWaiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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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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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
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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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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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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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