I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
AL PACINOI’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
AL PACINOI didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
AL PACINOIt’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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 PACINOSometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
AL PACINOExcept if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
AL PACINOMy early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
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 PACINOReally, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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 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 PACINOSometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
AL PACINOI destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
AL PACINOA lot of acting is private time.
AL PACINOIf something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
AL PACINOA good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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