You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
AL PACINOI didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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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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In 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.
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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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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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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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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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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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A lot of acting is private time.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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