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 PACINOI’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
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I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
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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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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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I 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.
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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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