Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
AL PACINO“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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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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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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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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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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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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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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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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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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