I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
AL PACINOI have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
AL PACINOIt’s not personal, it’s strictly business
AL PACINOI just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
AL PACINOWhat’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
AL PACINOWhen you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
AL PACINOI try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
AL PACINOI didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
AL PACINORead it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
AL PACINOI don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
AL PACINOThe stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
AL PACINOThat was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
AL PACINOThere was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
AL PACINOI always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
AL PACINOLarry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
AL PACINOThe physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
AL PACINOThe story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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