What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
AL PACINOI hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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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’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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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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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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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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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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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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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.
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