You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
AL PACINOOpinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
More Al Pacino Quotes
-
-
Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
AL PACINO -
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.
AL PACINO -
My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
AL PACINO -
Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
AL PACINO -
Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
AL PACINO -
I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
AL PACINO -
The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
AL PACINO -
If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
AL PACINO -
[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
AL PACINO -
Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
AL PACINO -
Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
AL PACINO -
Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
AL PACINO -
I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
AL PACINO -
I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
AL PACINO -
Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
AL PACINO