I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
AL PACINOI understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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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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I did say to her that I thought that she had a real gift, and it’s a good idea to know that. It’s always good to go with your gift.
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We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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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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I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
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I didn’t want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally – Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least,
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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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.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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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.
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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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Either I act or I die.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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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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You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
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