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 PACINOMy best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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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’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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I used to think of myself as a comedian. I’ve always admired comedians.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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