Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
AL PACINOI do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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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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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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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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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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