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 PACINOOr try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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I destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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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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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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