I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
AL PACINOLearning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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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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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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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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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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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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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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