I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
AL PACINOThe reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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Either I act or I die.
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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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