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.
AL PACINOI’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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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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The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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