My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
AL PACINOThe difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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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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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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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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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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