Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
AL PACINOI don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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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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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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