I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.
AL PACINOI found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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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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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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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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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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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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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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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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