You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
AL PACINOI’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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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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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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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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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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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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