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.
AL PACINOThere is no happiness. There is only concentration.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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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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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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I haven’t encouraged [Julia Marie Pacino] or discouraged her. I let her go her own way.
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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I’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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When 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.
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They say we die twice – once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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