When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
AL PACINOWhen you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
AL PACINOThe play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
AL PACINOBe careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
AL PACINOI guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
AL PACINOThe difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
AL PACINOI destroy it because it’s no longer coming from my unconscious.
AL PACINOI go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
AL PACINOWe start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
AL PACINOWhen you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
AL PACINOThere is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
AL PACINOMy own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
AL PACINORomantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
AL PACINOSo that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
AL PACINOIt was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
AL PACINOA lot of acting is private time.
AL PACINOA good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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