Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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 do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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Either I act or I die.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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