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.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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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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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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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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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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