It would be hard to play a character you don’t like – for me anyway – or can’t find something in them to like.
AL PACINOMy grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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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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I go all over the world, I have access to many things, many people, many places and it’s wonderful. But now I’m at a point where.
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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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And then you go back like a few days later and then you listen to the movie. And it sort of plays in your mind like a film, like a first rough cut of a movie.
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You don’t get to know anybody in a movie until after it’s over. You work less together in a film than you do onstage.
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I’m an actor, and everything about me – the way I perceive things, the way I have seen the world – has been in relation to characters and how I would want to play something or not play it.
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I just wondered how it would feel, how people would treat her, but she’s adjusted so marvelously.
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I try to get some friends together and read a script aloud. Sometimes I read scripts and record them and play them back to see if there’s a movie.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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You’re in a conversation and everybody’s agreeing with what you’re saying – even if you say something totally crazy. You need people who can tell you what you don’t want to hear.
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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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