al pacino

At times during our conversation, he was humble and even self-deprecating about his own achievements. “I like talking about something I know very, very little about, like acting,” Pacino said, though the twinkle in his eye underscored the wisdom of his years of experience. Now, he’s interested in passing some of that experience on — especially to his three children, whom he spoke of proudly. As our discussions on filmmaking, fame, family and the aging process demonstrated, he has a lot he wants to say — though with Al Pacino, getting to the point is always a journey unto itself.

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Q: Have anda been involved in anything salacious?
A: When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.

Q: What do anda mean, the sex thing?
A: Well, anda know.

Q: No, I don’t know.
A: When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.

Q: What did anda do to deal with the pressures of fame?
A: Many years ago, in the late ‘70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of tampil where I got a lot of buku and poetry and pieces of Shakespeare and other writers that I admire, read it to the class and then afterward we would...