We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
AL PACINOWe start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
AL PACINOIt would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
AL PACINOThe problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
AL PACINOI do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
AL PACINOTheir minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
AL PACINOAfter looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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 PACINOI’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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 PACINOOn any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
AL PACINOI’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
AL PACINOMy movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
AL PACINOAn actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
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 PACINOSo I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
AL PACINOEither we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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