Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
AL PACINOExcept if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
AL PACINOI found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
AL PACINOGrease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
AL PACINOWe were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
AL PACINOYou’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
AL PACINOI used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
AL PACINOFreedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
AL PACINOThere are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
AL PACINO“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
AL PACINOThe hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
AL PACINOYou’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
AL PACINOThere are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
AL PACINOI’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
AL PACINOThe problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
AL PACINOWhen you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
AL PACINOThe interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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