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 PACINOIn America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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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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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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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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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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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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