You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
AL PACINOYou don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
AL PACINOIt used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
AL PACINOThe play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
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 PACINOAll due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
AL PACINOMy weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
AL PACINOPretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
AL PACINOI went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
AL PACINOShow me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
AL PACINOOur ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
AL PACINOI did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
AL PACINOYou sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
AL PACINOI just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
AL PACINOWe were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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 PACINOI don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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