“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
AL PACINOReally, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I understand it on a superficial level, but the depth of it just boggles my mind. I think it’s probably the greatest of all speeches ever written.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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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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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 thought, what’s going on? Did some whale get washed up to shore? So I stood up on the table to see what it was, and it was the director.
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I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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The stage is different ; there’s more to act. There are more demands put on you, more experiences to go through.
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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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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
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It turned out that time doesn’t heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly
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I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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Either we heal now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.
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I’ve never felt sensitive to the whole issue, because being macho has never been a problem with me.
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It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
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I come from the South Bronx – a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood; it was a very integrated life.
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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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Failure’s relative. I’ve always felt, even early on, if I lose the freedom to fail, something’s not right about that. It’s how you treat failure, too.
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That’s where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that’s what I like. I’ve always felt that’s what I would like to do.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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