I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
AL PACINOI’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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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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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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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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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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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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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare’s.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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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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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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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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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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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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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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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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