We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
AL PACINOWe’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
AL PACINOI’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
AL PACINOsometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
AL PACINOYou could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
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 PACINOI’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
AL PACINOI’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
AL PACINOYou’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
AL PACINO[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
AL PACINOI thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
AL PACINOI understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
AL PACINOSometimes they are the same exact thing.
AL PACINOBeing the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
AL PACINOJamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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