I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
AL PACINOI was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
AL PACINORead it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
AL PACINOThat’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
AL PACINOIf you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
AL PACINOI want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
AL PACINOI put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
AL PACINOWhat kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
AL PACINOYou’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.
AL PACINOThey made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
AL PACINOYou’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
AL PACINOI’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
AL PACINOA good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
AL PACINOThere is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
AL PACINOMy dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
AL PACINOCertainly 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.
AL PACINOA lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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