To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
AL PACINOAny project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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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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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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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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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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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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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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