You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
AL PACINOThere has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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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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All I am is what I’m going after.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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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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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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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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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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