So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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I’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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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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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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