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 PACINOI’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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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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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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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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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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