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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 Pacino

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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Always Bad Carpet Day Meet Other People Red Thought
I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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Instead Month People Personally Play Think Want Week Work
I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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Age Artist Far Hate Life Lot Thing Work
I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
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Another Beyond Find Genuflect Higher Obe Pedestal Use Used Way Woman
Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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Character Part Play Relative Responsibility Script
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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Director Get Go Shore Some Stood Table Thought Wash Whale
I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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Back Cop Deal Escape Happen My Responsibility Stage Success Way
They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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Academy Award Bad Feel Good Made Pretty
And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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Back Cut First Later Listen Movie Play Rough Sort
sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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Angel Better Devil Know Sometimes
I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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Destroy Make Out Paint Something Soon Unconscious
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.
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Bit Country Dose Everybody Except Full Half Little Mostly
I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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Afterward Feel Gold Guess Medal Now Olympic Oscar Week Win
At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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Audition Career Children Deal Humble Other Point Rejection Thing
I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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All Boggles Great Leave Probably Speech Understand Written
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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Assemble Care Fact Gun Learn Scent Woman
When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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Course Kind Kindm Ride Movie Pair Passage Sex Star Think Younger
Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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Look Swallow Taste Touch
You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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Cash Puttin Register Say Sudden Talk
There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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Analyse Colossally Fail Failure Kind Learn Movie Something
You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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Audition Got Opportunity Thing Think
My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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Almost Career Early Movie Overwhelm Real Stardom
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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Actor Do Get Healthy Out Repeat Something Young
I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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Admire Always Comedian Myself People Think
If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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Empathize Identify People Therefore Thing Understand
Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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Ability Detect Exceed Fraud Manufacture Reality Truth
People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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Ask College Film Get Great Home Location Music People Person Restaurant Therapy

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.

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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.

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