I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
AL PACINOI’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
AL PACINOA good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
AL PACINOI was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
AL PACINOYou could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
AL PACINOI like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
AL PACINOAll due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
AL PACINOAll due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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 PACINOThere has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
AL PACINOMy first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
AL PACINOPlaying a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
AL PACINOI found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
AL PACINOYou try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
AL PACINOResponsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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