My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
AL PACINOMy children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
AL PACINOI learned to wrestle, I learned defensive fighting at a young age, because when someone hit me, I would throw up and fall down.
AL PACINOI have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
AL PACINOA good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
AL PACINOIn America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
AL PACINOWhether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
AL PACINOI don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
AL PACINOI had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
AL PACINOI personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
AL PACINOYou could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
AL PACINOActing is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
AL PACINOWhen you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
AL PACINOThe interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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 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 PACINOFailure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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