All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
AL PACINOI was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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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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After 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.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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The 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.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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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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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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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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