I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
AL PACINOI don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
AL PACINOIt had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
AL PACINOActually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
AL PACINOI found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
AL PACINOMany years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
AL PACINOI’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
AL PACINOSometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
AL PACINOAnd I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
AL PACINOWhat he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
AL PACINOI was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
AL PACINOIt’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
AL PACINOYou’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
AL PACINOThere are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
AL PACINOWhat’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
AL PACINOThe stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
AL PACINOI’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
AL PACINO