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.
AL PACINOI had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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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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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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