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 PACINOFailure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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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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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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