The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
AL PACINOThe actor becomes an emotional athlete.
AL PACINOIt’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
AL PACINOMy children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
AL PACINOI could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
AL PACINOA good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
AL PACINOIt surprised me, the feeling I got when I won the Oscar for ‘Scent of a Woman.’ It was a new feeling. I’d never felt it.
AL PACINOI didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
AL PACINOI’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
AL PACINOI thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
AL PACINOAnybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
AL PACINOThe fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
AL PACINOI just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
AL PACINOYou sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
AL PACINOThere are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
AL PACINO[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
AL PACINOI do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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