I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
AL PACINOI’m not a violent person, never was, but I have this temperament that I’ve always displayed.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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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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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
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Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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