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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.

Al Pacino

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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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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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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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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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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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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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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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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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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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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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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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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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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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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