My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
AL PACINOMy dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
AL PACINOIt was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
AL PACINODid you know I started out as a stand-up comic? People don’t believe me when I tell them. That’s how I saw myself, in comedy.
AL PACINOAt one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
AL PACINOForget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
AL PACINOI didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
AL PACINOThe fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
AL PACINOTo me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
AL PACINOI don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
AL PACINOI’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
AL PACINOMy children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
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 PACINOSometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
AL PACINOThe literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
AL PACINOI was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
AL PACINOWomen have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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