I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
AL PACINOAny project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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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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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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