I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Did you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
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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.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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Either I act or I die.
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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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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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