The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
AL PACINOFreedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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People are always asking me to do Shakespeare – at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It’s like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It’s great therapy.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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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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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete.
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All due respect and trying to be as modest as I can be,
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I would come home and she would tell me about her life that day and all her problems and I remember saying to her, look, you really got me through this picture because I would shed everything when I came home.
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I’m sensing something and I’m going along with it. It reminds me of a painting, the way Jackson Pollack painted – Jackson Pollack, the great, great artist.
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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.
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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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My own celebrity, my own life. This is semi-autobiographical in terms of my commitment to this kind of thing.
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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.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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So I grew up having a certain relationship to work. It was something that I always wanted.
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