I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
AL PACINOWhen you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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It’s childish. It’s also responsible. It’s illuminating, enriching, joyful, drab. It’s bizarre, diabolical. It’s exciting.
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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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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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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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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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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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It’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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[Ocean’s Thirteen] is a great group, and it was an opportunity to work with Steven Soderbergh. But mainly? It was shot in L.A. and I want to be next to my kids.
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There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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I’ve never cared for guns. In fact, when I did ‘Scent of a Woman’ I had to learn how to assemble one.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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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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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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