I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
AL PACINOI just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
AL PACINOYou’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
AL PACINOWomen have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
AL PACINOIt’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
AL PACINOThe story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
AL PACINOI did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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 PACINOI guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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 thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
AL PACINOIt’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
AL PACINOAll I am is what I’m going after.
AL PACINOI don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
AL PACINOSometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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 PACINOI do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
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