There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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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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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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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