Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
AL PACINOI want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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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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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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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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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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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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