The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
AL PACINOHere in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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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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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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Our life is looking forward or looking back, that’s it. Where is the moment?
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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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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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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