I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
AL PACINOThe actor becomes an emotional athlete.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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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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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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I didn’t know what I was going to do with my life. I just had a kind of energy, I was a fairly happy kid.
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So that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It’s an extraordinary thing. It’s wild turf up there.
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They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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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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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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When my mother got home from work, she would take me to the movies.
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I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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