Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
AL PACINOShakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
AL PACINOTo be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
AL PACINOI always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
AL PACINOPeople are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
AL PACINOMy movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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 don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
AL PACINOThe truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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.
AL PACINOI turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
AL PACINOOpinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
AL PACINOAt this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
AL PACINOIf I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
AL PACINOWhen my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
AL PACINOThe literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
AL PACINOSometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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