I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
AL PACINOI like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
AL PACINOI picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
AL PACINOAll I am is what I’m going after.
AL PACINOThe thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
AL PACINOFreedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
AL PACINOI thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
AL PACINOIs it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
AL PACINOI think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
AL PACINOI’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
AL PACINOYou try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
AL PACINOI found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
AL PACINOSometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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 PACINOEither I act or I die.
AL PACINOI don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
AL PACINOAnybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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