I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
AL PACINOI come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
AL PACINOHere in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
AL PACINODid you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
AL PACINOI was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
AL PACINOYou’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
AL PACINOThe literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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 PACINO“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
AL PACINOTake a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
AL PACINOsometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
AL PACINOBrian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
AL PACINOI do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
AL PACINOSometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
AL PACINOI’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
AL PACINOI wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
AL PACINOI could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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