I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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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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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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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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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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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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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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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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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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A lot of acting is private time.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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