In 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.
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.
AL PACINOLove goes through different stages. But it endures.
AL PACINOAt one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
AL PACINOLee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
AL PACINOIf you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
AL PACINORomantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
AL PACINOSo I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
AL PACINOI believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
AL PACINOSometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
AL PACINOShow me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
AL PACINOI thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
AL PACINOMy grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
AL PACINOYou don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
AL PACINOI 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.
AL PACINOThe literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
AL PACINOI try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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