I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
AL PACINOI understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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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 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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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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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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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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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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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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