Vanity is my favourite sin.
AL PACINOVanity is my favourite sin.
AL PACINOIf I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
AL PACINOPretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
AL PACINOLee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
AL PACINOThe thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
AL PACINOTo me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
AL PACINOIt’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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 PACINOOr try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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.
AL PACINOI found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
AL PACINOOne of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
AL PACINOI try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
AL PACINOYou’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
AL PACINOThe actor becomes an emotional athlete.
AL PACINOI was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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