Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
AL PACINODrinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
AL PACINOSo that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
AL PACINOI’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
AL PACINOI like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
AL PACINOLarry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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 PACINOWhat kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
AL PACINOI’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
AL PACINOPretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
AL PACINOThe actor becomes an emotional athlete.
AL PACINOIt would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
AL PACINOExcept if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
AL PACINOSo I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
AL PACINOMy dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
AL PACINOIf you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
AL PACINOThe story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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