Sometimes you’re fighting corporations and forget that people can talk to each other.
AL PACINOI don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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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I believe in one day at a time; you’ve got TODAY, that’s what you’ ve got.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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I’ve had very deep relationships that lasted for long periods of time with people.
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Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
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Francis Ford Coppola did this early on. You tape a movie, like a radio show, and you have the narrator read all the stage directions.
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When you’re acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.
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My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
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Many 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.
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Drinking and smoking grass were a part of my life as far back as I can remember.
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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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I went back to the stage because it was my way of dealing with the success I had, my way of coping.
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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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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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It’s never really that much fun for me to do movies anyway, because you – you know, you have to get up very early in the morning and you have to go in and you spend a lot of time waiting around.
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