I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
AL PACINOThe whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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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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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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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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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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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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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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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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