Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
AL PACINOWhen you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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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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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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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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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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