If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
AL PACINOI was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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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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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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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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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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Either I act or I die.
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Forget 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.
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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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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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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 would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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