I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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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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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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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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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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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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