I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
AL PACINOI thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
More Al Pacino Quotes
-
-
I want to be a great actor someday, and I’ve decided there’s no use philosophizing; the only way is to work at my craft.
AL PACINO -
I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It’s almost like a painter having a model to become.
AL PACINO -
Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
AL PACINO -
When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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 -
Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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 -
If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
AL PACINO -
A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.
AL PACINO -
“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
AL PACINO -
They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
AL PACINO -
I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
AL PACINO -
I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
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 -
I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
AL PACINO