I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
AL PACINOFreedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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Anybody who cares about what he does takes risks.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
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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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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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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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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’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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