You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
AL PACINOMy best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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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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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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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 hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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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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