My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
AL PACINOMy early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
AL PACINOLove goes through different stages. But it endures.
AL PACINOGreat directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
AL PACINOI’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
AL PACINOI didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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 PACINOI would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
AL PACINOAt one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
AL PACINOThe play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
AL PACINOTo be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
AL PACINOThe truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
AL PACINOGrease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
AL PACINOI’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
AL PACINOSometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
AL PACINOShow me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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