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 PACINOSo I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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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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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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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.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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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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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.
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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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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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