I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
AL PACINOIt’s so funny when people who are not used to making movies get into it. You just can’t believe how insufferably boring it is.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
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I’m so shy now I wear sunglasses everywhere I go.
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Is it possible to do something that that makes an audience uncomfortable, challenges them, makes them see things they’re not used to?
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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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I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
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What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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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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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 was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.
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All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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