I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
AL PACINOI don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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 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 PACINOI didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
AL PACINOI’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
AL PACINOCertainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
AL PACINOMy movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
AL PACINO“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
AL PACINOI’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
AL PACINOSometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
AL PACINOI’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
AL PACINOI don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
AL PACINOI found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
AL PACINOWe start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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