Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
AL PACINOYou’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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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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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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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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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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