The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
AL PACINOWhether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
More Al Pacino Quotes
-
-
We start to realize that there are anodynes in life that help us through the day.
AL PACINO -
I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
AL PACINO -
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.
AL PACINO -
The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires.
AL PACINO -
When [Julia Marie Pacino] was 5 or 6 years old, we were in an Italian restaurant, and these people came by the table and they would start talking to me, asking me for my autograph and she just went under the table.
AL PACINO -
You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That’s magical. He’s done a great thing.
AL PACINO -
The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
AL PACINO -
I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
AL PACINO -
In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
AL PACINO -
Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
AL PACINO -
My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
AL PACINO -
It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
AL PACINO -
You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
AL PACINO -
I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
AL PACINO -
If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
AL PACINO -
If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
AL PACINO -
Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
AL PACINO -
Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
AL PACINO -
Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
AL PACINO -
I’m expressing something that I feel is a way to exercise my talent and help communicate a role as a human being in a movie, I will do that.
AL PACINO -
A lot of acting is private time.
AL PACINO -
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.
AL PACINO -
All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
AL PACINO -
I do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
AL PACINO -
When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
AL PACINO -
Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
AL PACINO