The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
AL PACINOThere 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.”
More Al Pacino Quotes
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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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I thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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