I probably write a poem every 50 years.
AL PACINOI probably write a poem every 50 years.
AL PACINOI have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
AL PACINOI don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
AL PACINOI do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
AL PACINOI went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
AL PACINOA lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
AL PACINOIt wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
AL PACINOYou want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
AL PACINOYou’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
AL PACINOI didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
AL PACINOEither I act or I die.
AL PACINOIs it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
AL PACINOWhat kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
AL PACINOThe camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
AL PACINOWe start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
AL PACINOI didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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