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.
AL PACINOI’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
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It had a tremendous influence on my becoming an actor.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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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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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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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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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.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
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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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