You sharpen the human appetite to the point where it can split atoms with its desire; you build egos the size of cathedrals; fiber-optically connect the world to every eager impulse.
AL PACINOSometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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So I’ve been doing everything that has to do with being next to them, close to them.
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
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I hope the perception is that I’m an actor, I never intended to be a movie star.
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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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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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Here in these films [Salome the play and Salomaybe], I have the opportunity to say something about how I feel about things.
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I never saw myself as a director. It’s certainly a second language but making movies for 40 years, you pick stuff up. However, this style of making movies, this documentary style, is easier for me because I gather a lot of material and with an editor, write it on screen. You try to write based on what you shot.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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I’d probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they’re the same thing.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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Actors are always outsiders. It’s necessary to be able to interpret – and that gets distorted when you become famous.
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You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
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Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
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Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I’m playing.
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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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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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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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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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[Oscar Wilde’s Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that’s why I guess it’s semi-autobiographical.
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I was playing a part of someone dealing dope on a street corner – and there was a guy actually dealing heroin right there. I looked at him, he looked at me, and I got real confused.
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I’m constantly striving to break through to something new.
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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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