I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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More Al Pacino Quotes
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Without coffee something’s missing
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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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.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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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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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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