Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
AL PACINOI believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
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Either I act or I die.
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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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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There 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.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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