I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
AL PACINOI’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
AL PACINOI always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
AL PACINODrinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
AL PACINOPlaying a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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 love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
AL PACINOChekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
AL PACINOActors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
AL PACINOThe interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
AL PACINOA kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
AL PACINOWithout coffee something’s missing
AL PACINOThe hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
AL PACINOOr try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
AL PACINOReally, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
AL PACINOFailure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
AL PACINOI learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
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