I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
AL PACINOThe 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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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 haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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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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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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