What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
AL PACINOWhat’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
AL PACINOIt was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
AL PACINOAll I am is what I’m going after.
AL PACINOIf something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
AL PACINOSo that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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 PACINOI haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
AL PACINOLove is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
AL PACINOI wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
AL PACINOI didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
AL PACINOI destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
AL PACINOI probably write a poem every 50 years.
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 PACINOOur ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
AL PACINOYou try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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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