The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
AL PACINOThe actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
AL PACINOThere are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
AL PACINOShakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
AL PACINOI’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
AL PACINOI turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
AL PACINOHere in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
AL PACINOI guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
AL PACINOThe play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
AL PACINOI’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
AL PACINOI probably write a poem every 50 years.
AL PACINOI like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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 PACINOMy grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
AL PACINOBeing the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
AL PACINOAnd then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
AL PACINOIt’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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