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 PACINOThe actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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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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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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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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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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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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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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I am a dancer. But I don’t think I would be on ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ mainly because I would be too shy.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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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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