I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
AL PACINOMany years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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A lot of acting is private time.
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Without coffee something’s missing
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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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Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
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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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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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I guess it has to do with my tradition and being Italian, we’re very outgoing with our emotions.
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I’m always on a red carpet . . . the other day I thought, this ain’t bad. You can meet people on it.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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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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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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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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Either I act or I die.
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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