You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
AL PACINOThe interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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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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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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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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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 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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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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