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 PACINOMy movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don’t have a movie.
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I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways.
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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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I’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
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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.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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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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