black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.

Al Pacino

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.
AL PACINO

Actor Do Get Healthy Out Repeat Something Young
I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
AL PACINO

All Comedy Help Movie Put
Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
AL PACINO

Audience Learn Make See Something Try
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful – my personal life suffers.
AL PACINO

Actor Athlete Emotional Felt Life Painful Personal Suffer
They cost nothing, and they can be as real as you like to make them. You own your dreams and they are priceless.
AL PACINO

Cost Dreams Make Nothing Priceless Real
I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
AL PACINO

Anything Character Feel Like Made Mistake Regret
There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, “Hey, I have to stop this silliness.”
AL PACINO

Dishonest Hey Natural Time Way Women
It used to worry me what people said about me. I’m learning not to worry as much.
AL PACINO

Learn Much People Use Way Worry
There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
AL PACINO

Couple Especial Live Made Married Mistake Once Think Time
There is only one way of surviving all the early heartbreaks in this business. You must have a sense of humor. And I think it also helps if you are a dreamer. I had my dreams all right. And that is something no one can ever take away.
AL PACINO

Business Dream Heartbreak Humor Real Sense Survive Think
Everything changes with age. The parts change with age, your feelings about them change, roles that I would’ve wanted to play 10 years ago, I don’t want to play now.
AL PACINO

Age Change Everything Feeling Part Play Role Ten Want Year
A lot of acting is private time.
AL PACINO

Act Lot Private Time
Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
AL PACINO

Great Maybe Script Some Something Television
[Salomaybe] is my presentation, my vision of the world. Not so much to satisfy the audience at large.
AL PACINO

Audience Large Much Presentation Satisfy Vision World
In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
AL PACINO

Bit Country Dose Everybody Except Full Half Little Mostly
To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
AL PACINO

Country Obvious Really Shoulder Somebody Something Strap Throw
Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
AL PACINO

After Dad Grandfather Maternal Mother Raise Real War
When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
AL PACINO

Interweavemoscar Journey Sort Story Take Thing Wide
Without coffee something’s missing
AL PACINO

Coffee Miss Something
You want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
AL PACINO

Come Finally Friend Point Women
Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
AL PACINO

Better Bit Little Man Reputation Worse
My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
AL PACINO

Cope First Have Language Learn Limelight Only Shy Thrust
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.
AL PACINO

Alive Come Director Great Pace Scene Stag Understand Way
Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
AL PACINO

Children Exposure Name Pretty Soon Start Worry
Sometimes what we imagine and the world aren’t different things.
AL PACINO

Different Dream Imagine Realize Sometimes Start Thing Vision Word World
One of the things that made me want to be an actor more than ever was seeing a Chekhov play, “The Sea Gull,” when was 14 in the Bronx.
AL PACINO

Actor Ever Gull Made One Play Sea Thing Want
I don’t need bodyguards. I’m from the South Bronx.
AL PACINO

Bodyguard Bronx Need South

And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Al Pacino Quotes