I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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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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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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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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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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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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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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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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