So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
AL PACINOSo I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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 don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
AL PACINOI went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
AL PACINOYou’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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 PACINOYou’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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 PACINODid you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
AL PACINOShow me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
AL PACINOAnybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
AL PACINOThere’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
AL PACINOCertainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
AL PACINOOur ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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 PACINOThe thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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