I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
AL PACINOI found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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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 never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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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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When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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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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Take a look at Israel’s history and you would know who the terrorist is.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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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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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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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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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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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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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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