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 PACINOTake a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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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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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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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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