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.
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.
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.
I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
![Al Pacino Quote - Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/here-in-these-films-salome-the-play-and-salomaybe--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)
