Look, but don’t touch. Touch, but don’t taste. Taste, but don’t swallow.
AL PACINOWhen you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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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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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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It’s easy to fool the eye but it’s hard to fool the heart.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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There is something to the repeats. I think that is part of what is healthy to young actors. Get out and learn something just through doing that, repeating.
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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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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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Whether he’s doing great acting or not, you’re seeing somebody who is in the tradition of a great actor.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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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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We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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