The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
AL PACINOAfter 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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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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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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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 just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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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 need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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