Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
AL PACINOIt was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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At this point in my career, I don’t have to deal with audition rejections. So I get my rejection from other things.
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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.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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I didn’t want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it’s OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.
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The play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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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.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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I have a life and do a lot of things, and so far my work has been my life.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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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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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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It’s very evocative; it’s like a first cut because you hear ‘She walked to the door,’ and you visualize all these things. ‘She opens the door’ . . . because you read the stage directions, too.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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