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.
AL PACINOEarly on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for 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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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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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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I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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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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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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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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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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