They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
AL PACINOThey say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
AL PACINOI destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
AL PACINOI don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
AL PACINOI picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
AL PACINOI thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
AL PACINOWhen I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
AL PACINO“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
AL PACINOThe thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
AL PACINOIt’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
AL PACINOThere has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
AL PACINOThe problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
AL PACINOWhen you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
AL PACINOLarry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
AL PACINOI went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
AL PACINOI didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
AL PACINOThere is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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