The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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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 used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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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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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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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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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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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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