It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
AL PACINOHere in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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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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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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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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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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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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