There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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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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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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