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.
AL PACINOI’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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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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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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After 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.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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