Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
AL PACINOI 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.
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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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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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 want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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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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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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