My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
AL PACINOI’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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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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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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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 just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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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.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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