When I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
AL PACINOThe truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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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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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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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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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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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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