At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
AL PACINOWhen I was younger, I would go to auditions to have the opportunity to audition, which would mean another chance to get up there and try out my stuff.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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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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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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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That’s the way to live – around people who care. It may be a tough ride, but something is going to come out of it.
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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 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.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I had these little babies [my twins] and it gave me something so spectacular, such a feeling – I was so turned on and so excited by them that I wrote a poem.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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My weaknesses… I wish I could come up with something.
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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 story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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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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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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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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