You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
AL PACINOYou’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
AL PACINOI went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
AL PACINOI believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
AL PACINOI’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
AL PACINOThey say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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 PACINOAt this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
AL PACINOA lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
AL PACINOLarry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
AL PACINOI don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
AL PACINOActing is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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 PACINOOpinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
AL PACINOI once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
AL PACINOI do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
AL PACINODrinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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