You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
AL PACINOMy early career was a real rush of movies and stardom – it was almost overwhelming.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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sometimes it’s better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn’t know
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It wasn’t until I got older that I realized acting was something I could really do.
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Early on in my career, I remember running – fleeing – to the theater as a way of coping with all the meshugaas that was going on for me.
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My first language was shy. It’s only by having been thrust into the limelight that I have learned to cope with my shyness.
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The thing is doing it, that’s what it’s all about. Not in the results of it. After all what is a risk? It’s a risk not to take risks. Otherwise, you can go stale and repeat yourself.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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I’m more comfortable in a play. In film, there’s always a certain sense of control, of holding back.
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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.
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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’ve often said there’s two kinds of actors. There’s a more gregarious type and the shy type.
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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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I’ve always been in the theater. I’ve always gone to it. That’s been my way to cope.
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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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