I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
AL PACINOI hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
AL PACINOI believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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 PACINOThe truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
AL PACINOI didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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 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 PACINO[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
AL PACINOWhen you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
AL PACINOAll I am is what I’m going after.
AL PACINOI personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
AL PACINOWhen you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
AL PACINOYou’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
AL PACINOYou’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
AL PACINOLook, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
AL PACINOThe only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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