The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
AL PACINOYou’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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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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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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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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.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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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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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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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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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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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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