I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
AL PACINOI’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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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 want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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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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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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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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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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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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