Failure’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.
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.
AL PACINOI love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
AL PACINOIt had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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 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 PACINOI would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
AL PACINOAll I am is what I’m going after.
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 PACINOThe hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
AL PACINOWe live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
AL PACINOI’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
AL PACINOSometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
AL PACINOThe physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
AL PACINOYou’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
AL PACINOResponsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
AL PACINOThe difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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