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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.

Al Pacino

I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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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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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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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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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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