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.
AL PACINOForget 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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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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