Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
AL PACINOHere in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
AL PACINOThat’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
AL PACINOI’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
AL PACINOWhat’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
AL PACINOMan is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
AL PACINO[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
AL PACINOI put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
AL PACINOI’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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 PACINOSo that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
AL PACINOEarly on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
AL PACINOMy grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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 PACINOThat was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
AL PACINO[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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.
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