I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
AL PACINOYou need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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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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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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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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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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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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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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