The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
AL PACINO[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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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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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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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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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