The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
AL PACINOThe reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
AL PACINOShakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
AL PACINOLove goes through different stages. But it endures.
AL PACINOOr try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
AL PACINOOn any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
AL PACINOThere is no happiness. There is only concentration.
AL PACINOAfter looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
AL PACINOI had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
AL PACINOThere was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
AL PACINOChekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
AL PACINOThe physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
AL PACINOIt’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
AL PACINOI probably write a poem every 50 years.
AL PACINOI would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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 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.
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