I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
AL PACINOI don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
AL PACINOI can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
AL PACINOThe reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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 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 PACINOYou’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
AL PACINOI wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
AL PACINOThe problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
AL PACINOBrian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
AL PACINOI had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
AL PACINOI hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
AL PACINOI love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
AL PACINOThat’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
AL PACINOA lot of acting is private time.
AL PACINO[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
AL PACINOI always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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