Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
AL PACINOAfter looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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I 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.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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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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When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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