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.
I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
![Al Pacino Quote - I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/i-think-what-you-see-in-salome-the-play-backstage--683x1024.jpg)
![Al Pacino Quote - I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/i-once-asked-my-oldest-daughter-julia-marie-if-she-683x1024.jpg)
![Al Pacino Quote - I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/i-had-these-little-babies-my-twins-and-it-gave-me--683x1024.jpg)
