That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
AL PACINOThere are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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Sometimes 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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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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