I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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.
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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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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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