Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
AL PACINOFrancis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
AL PACINOI’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
AL PACINOI do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
AL PACINOI was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
AL PACINOIf you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
AL PACINOMy children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
AL PACINOSo I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
AL PACINOVanity: my favorite sin.
AL PACINOIf something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
AL PACINOWhen you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
AL PACINOEither I act or I die.
AL PACINOIt’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
AL PACINOI thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
AL PACINOI want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
AL PACINOI’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
AL PACINOAll due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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