I thought it was time to show some of it, to show some of my feelings about things and what I preferred at the time. I prefer them still but not to the extent I did at the time.
AL PACINOYou want to finally come to a point where you say that the women you’re with is also your friend.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.
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Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
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I don’t regret anything. I feel like I’ve made what I would call mistakes.
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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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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn’t want to do movies that much.
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They made me feel pretty good. But it also did not make me feel bad NOT winning the Academy Award.
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Chekhov was as important to me as anybody as a writer.
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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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I was quite overtaken by success and fame. I was one of those types who responded to it in a negative way. It was not easy.
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There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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Their minds, the way in which they se the world is so striking, the way they juxtapose things, the way they can see humor in people. There’s a liberation in that.
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