Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
AL PACINOThe hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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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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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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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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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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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 won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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