I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
AL PACINOI guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
AL PACINOOur life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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 PACINOMy grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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 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 PACINOI do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
AL PACINOAll due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
AL PACINOA good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
AL PACINOI like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
AL PACINOResponsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
AL PACINOI don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
AL PACINOI’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
AL PACINOWe’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
AL PACINOI’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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.
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