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.
AL PACINOIt’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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