Al Pacino Quotes, Character Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life. If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I'm an artist, I hate saying that.

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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.

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You don't get to know anybody in a movie until after it's over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.

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Either I act or I die.

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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq, 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 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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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating. There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.

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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.

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It's so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can't believe how insufferably boring it is. 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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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it because it's no longer coming from my unconscious.

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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, "Hey, I have to stop this silliness."

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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. I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.

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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.

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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.

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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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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling - I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem. I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.

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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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The 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. 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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