I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
AL PACINOI try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
AL PACINOOne of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
AL PACINOI destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
AL PACINOSometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
AL PACINOSometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
AL PACINOThe camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
AL PACINOI had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
AL PACINOThere are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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 PACINOIf I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
AL PACINOsometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
AL PACINOLove is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
AL PACINOExcept if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
AL PACINOIn America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
AL PACINOI always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
AL PACINOI didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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