Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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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 don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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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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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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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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[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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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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