[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
AL PACINOLook, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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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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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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I 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.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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