Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
AL PACINOMy best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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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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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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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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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday 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’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 was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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