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 PACINOYou could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I’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.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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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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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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I’ve always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing.
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A good warm bath can be one for you, or a whatever.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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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.
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