Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
AL PACINOResponsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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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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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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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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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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