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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More Al Pacino Quotes
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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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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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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