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 PACINOReally, 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 picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
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When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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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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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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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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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
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