[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
AL PACINOFreedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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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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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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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
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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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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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