Vanity is my favourite sin.
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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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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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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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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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.
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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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Without coffee something’s missing
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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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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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