Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
AL PACINO
I didn’t go for the needle at all. I never cared for drugs, because I saw what they did to most people. I thought that was the end of the road.
More Al Pacino Quotes
-
Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
AL PACINO -
I personally think if you’re given four months instead of four weeks on a play, with the people who want to work that way.
AL PACINO -
The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
AL PACINO -
You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
AL PACINO -
-
I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
AL PACINO -
I don’t see my Oscar much now. But when I first got it, there was a feeling for weeks afterward that I guess is akin to winning a gold medal in the Olympics.
AL PACINO -
I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
AL PACINO -
That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
AL PACINO -
I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
AL PACINO -
When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
AL PACINO -
I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
AL PACINO -
-
So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
AL PACINO -
Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
AL PACINO -
I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
AL PACINO