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.
AL PACINOI think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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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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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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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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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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