The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
AL PACINOYou’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
More Al Pacino Quotes
-
-
Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
AL PACINO -
I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
AL PACINO -
Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
AL PACINO -
I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
AL PACINO -
You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
AL PACINO -
I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
AL PACINO -
The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
AL PACINO -
I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
AL PACINO -
I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
AL PACINO -
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.
AL PACINO -
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.
AL PACINO -
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.
AL PACINO -
My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
AL PACINO -
An actor basically likes to be asked to do something, no matter what position he’s in. It feels more natural. Sitting and waiting is more gratifying.
AL PACINO -
A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
AL PACINO -
All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
AL PACINO -
It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
AL PACINO -
I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
AL PACINO -
I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
AL PACINO -
I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
AL PACINO -
I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
AL PACINO -
Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
AL PACINO -
Playing a character is an illusion, and I feel that when you know too much about a person, possibly part of that illusion is disrupted.
AL PACINO -
I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
AL PACINO -
You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
AL PACINO -
On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
AL PACINO