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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More Al Pacino Quotes
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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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 thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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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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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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