The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
AL PACINOThe actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
AL PACINOThe fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
AL PACINOWhether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
AL PACINOI believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
AL PACINODid you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
AL PACINOAll due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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.
AL PACINOI 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…
AL PACINOWaiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
AL PACINOIn 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 PACINOA lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
AL PACINOI personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
AL PACINOOur ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
AL PACINOI want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
AL PACINOWhen you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
AL PACINOThere was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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