Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
AL PACINOIn 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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