I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
AL PACINOI try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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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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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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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’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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