It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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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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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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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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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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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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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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