I 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.
AL PACINOI could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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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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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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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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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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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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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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