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.
AL PACINOIt was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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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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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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