I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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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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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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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 could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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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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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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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 destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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