I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
AL PACINOI’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
AL PACINOFreedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
AL PACINOMy first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
AL PACINOThat was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
AL PACINOI was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
AL PACINOI just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
AL PACINOResponsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
AL PACINOAnybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
AL PACINOI went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
AL PACINOI found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
AL PACINOThere are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
AL PACINOI’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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 PACINOYou try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
AL PACINOI didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
AL PACINOA good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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