If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
AL PACINOMy movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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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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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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