When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
AL PACINOLarry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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 was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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Grease even the dullest dreams with these dollar-green, gold-plated fantasies, until every human becomes an aspiring emperor, becomes his own God… and where can you go from there?
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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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I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
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I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.
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You need some insecurity if you’re an actor. It keeps the pot boiling. I haven’t yet started to think about retiring.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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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.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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