Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
AL PACINOHere in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
AL PACINOAt this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
AL PACINOI do not believe what I see on television. I believe a percentage of it, so it’s hard for me to discern. I don’t like what it’s doing to the world.
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 PACINOIf you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
AL PACINOI don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
AL PACINOOur ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
AL PACINOI don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
AL PACINOThey say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
AL PACINOSometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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 PACINOLove is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
AL PACINOWhen I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
AL PACINOMy best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That’s my mantra.
AL PACINOPretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
AL PACINOI hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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