I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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 always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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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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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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It surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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Either I act or I die.
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