Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
AL PACINOI always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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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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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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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 expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
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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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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 stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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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.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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