The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
AL PACINOThe physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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Either I act or I die.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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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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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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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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Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
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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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