My early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
AL PACINOI do believe, and I will always believe, that Shakespeare on film is really something that should be tried more often because it is an opportunity to take the humanity that Shakespeare writes into characters and express it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
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I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
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What’s this thing that gets between us and Shakespeare?
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn’t turn me on much.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Read it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
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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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[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
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If you get all tangled up, just tango on.
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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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You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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