It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
AL PACINOI’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 did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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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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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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