Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
AL PACINOIn America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Either I act or I die.
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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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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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