I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
AL PACINOI had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
AL PACINOThe fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
AL PACINOYou need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
AL PACINOVanity: my favorite sin.
AL PACINOThe thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
AL PACINOThere was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
AL PACINOA good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
AL PACINOThe camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
AL PACINOIf I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
AL PACINOOne of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
AL PACINOI am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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 PACINOSometimes they are the same exact thing.
AL PACINOI go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
AL PACINOYou don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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.
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