If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
AL PACINOIf something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
AL PACINOTo me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
AL PACINOWaiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
AL PACINOSo I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
AL PACINOI’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
AL PACINOLove is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
AL PACINO[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
AL PACINOI don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
AL PACINOWhen I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
AL PACINOActing is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
AL PACINOThere is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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 don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
AL PACINOIf I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
AL PACINOMy movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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.
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