I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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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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’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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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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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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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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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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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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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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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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