It’s not personal, it’s strictly business
AL PACINORead it to the class and then afterward we would talk and I would answer questions. It was really a way of expressing and finding out about where I was at that particular time, so it was very therapeutic for me.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I don’t understand the hatred and fear of gays and bisexuals and lesbians… it’s a concept I honestly cannot grasp.
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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 was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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Brian De Palma, standing there alone by the surf and they were all waiting for him. And I never forgot that because it represented to me what a director is, what a director does.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don ‘t take objection to it, because that’s the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
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Romantic love can be a lot of crap, though, let me tell you. And it can hurt you.
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“What was that, George, what were you doing?” And he said, “They were sleeping.” You’re always trying to catch them.
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Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
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If you can identify with people, you can empathize with people and therefore you understand things.
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