There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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.
You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
![Al Pacino Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/if-i-find-something-and-feel-as-though-i-can-contr-683x1024.jpg)
![Al Pacino Quote - I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/i-think-what-you-see-in-salome-the-play-backstage--683x1024.jpg)
