black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Al Pacino

I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
AL PACINO

Away Curiosity Daughter Know Long Oldest Run
It was a way of escaping the responsibilty of what was happening.
AL PACINO

Escape Happen Responsibility Way
I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
AL PACINO

Actual Attention Audience Costume Figure Long Look Play Robe
Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.
AL PACINO

Baby Freedom Have Say Sorry
I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets.
AL PACINO

Alive Anywhere Else More Street Take Theater
There are people whose sense of reality is very strong, who have a sense of honesty.
AL PACINO

Honesty People Reality Sense Strong
Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
AL PACINO

Audience Learn Make See Something Try
My children can make me feel rejected. They can humble you pretty quick.
AL PACINO

Children Feel Humble Make Pretty Quick Reject
In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.
AL PACINO

Bit Country Dose Everybody Except Full Half Little Mostly
I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp…Then I’d find another one.
AL PACINO

Another Beyond Find Genuflect Higher Obe Pedestal Use Used Way Woman
All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
AL PACINO

Dancer Due Respect Try Modest
Learning (Shakespeare’s plays) …in school was a bit of a bore.
AL PACINO

Author Bit Bore Education Learn Play School
My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
AL PACINO

All Being Feel Known Movie People Play Stuff Television Well
Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
AL PACINO

Bad Big Payday Script Show
You try to maintain a neutral approach to your work, and not be too hard on yourself.
AL PACINO

Approach Hard Maintain Neutral Try Work Yourself
I don’t like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight…
AL PACINO

Being Celebrity Country Kind never Position Thing Unnatural Weight Word

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Al Pacino Quotes