I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
AL PACINOI wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
AL PACINOTo me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
AL PACINOIt used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
AL PACINOI would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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 PACINOI just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
AL PACINOWhen I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
AL PACINOYou’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
AL PACINOA lot of acting is private time.
AL PACINOThere’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
AL PACINOI’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
AL PACINOActing is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
AL PACINOThe play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
AL PACINOI am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
AL PACINOThe difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
AL PACINOI went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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