[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.
AL PACINOWomen have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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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 had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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I do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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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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