I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
AL PACINOI’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
AL PACINOI don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
AL PACINOBrian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
AL PACINOSometimes they are the same exact thing.
AL PACINOThe truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
AL PACINOI wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
AL PACINOMy weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
AL PACINOYou could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
AL PACINOI didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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 PACINOSometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
AL PACINOI’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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 PACINOWhen you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
AL PACINOI have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
AL PACINOMan is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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