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 PACINOThe whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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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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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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