You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
AL PACINOYou try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
AL PACINOTheir minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
AL PACINOI have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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 PACINOThat’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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 PACINOI always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
AL PACINOSo I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
AL PACINOSometimes they are the same exact thing.
AL PACINOGreat directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
AL PACINOI’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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 PACINOAnd then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
AL PACINOThe stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
AL PACINOA good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
AL PACINOI’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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