Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
AL PACINORead it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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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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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’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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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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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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