I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
AL PACINOBe careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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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 did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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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’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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