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’ve been a lavatory attendant, a theatre usher, a panhandler, all for real. Now, as an actor, I can be a journalist today and a brain surgeon tomorrow. That’s the stuff my dreams are made of.
AL PACINO

Actor Dream Journalist Real Stuff Theatre Tomorrow
I once asked my oldest daughter [Julia Marie] if she thought about changing her name in school and she said, “No, I’m a Pacino. That’s my name.”
AL PACINO

Ask Change Daughter Name Oldest Once School Thought
Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
AL PACINO

Audition Only Sometimes Way
When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
AL PACINO

Actor All Day Found Keep Later Lighter Serious Try Younger
I don’t feel like a person who takes risks. Yet there’s something within me that must provoke controversy because I find it wherever I go.
AL PACINO

Controversy Feel Go Person Provoke Risk Something Take Wherever
I had it on scraps of paper and the maid threw it out.
AL PACINO

Maid Out Paper Scrap Threw
When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
AL PACINO

Interweavemoscar Journey Sort Story Take Thing Wide
You’re talking to him and all of a sudden, you say, “He’s puttin’ that in his cash register!”
AL PACINO

Cash Puttin Register Say Sudden Talk
I picked the wrong movie, or I didn’t pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
AL PACINO

Character Everything Get Pick Pool Pursue Something Wrong
The reasons you have for doing a movie will vary with the way your life is going. There was a time when a made a some movies because I felt I needed to work.
AL PACINO

Do Go Life Made Movie Need Reason Vary Way Work
On any given Sunday you’re gonna win or you’re gonna lose. The point is — can you win or lose like a man?
AL PACINO

Give Gonna Lose Man Point Sunday Win
To me, it’s not who you love… a man, a woman, what have you… it’s the fact that you love. That is all that truly matters.
AL PACINO

Fact Love Man Matter Truly Woman
Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
AL PACINO

Act Joyful Energize Enervate Hard Time Work
What he does with it, that’s something else, but he’s got it all. The talent, the instrument is there, that’s why he has endured.
AL PACINO

Do Else Endure Got Instrument Something Talent
Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
AL PACINO

Exact Same Sometimes Thing
If I find something and feel as though I can contribute to [it] in a way and feel I’m in it, whatever that means.
AL PACINO

Contribute Exercise Feel Find Mean Role Something Though Way
There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
AL PACINO

Close Closer Enemy Father Friend Keep Many Room Taught Thing
I found out how temperamental I am, yes. And that sometimes that can be kind of off-putting.
AL PACINO

Found Kind Off Out Put Sometimes Temperamental
I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
AL PACINO

Author Certain Do Feel Way
When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
AL PACINO

Great Happen Play Read Some Something Talk Writer
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 PACINO

Extent Feeling Prefer Show Some Thought Time
I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
AL PACINO

Actor Age Away Fade Hear Like Old Retire Shock Soldier
Vanity is my favourite sin.
AL PACINO

Favourite Sin Vanity
Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
AL PACINO

Cash Help Himself Illness Talk Writer
I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
AL PACINO

Concern Demand Different Go Movie Play
I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.
AL PACINO

Film First Lot Made Movie One Time Turn
I don’t like what’s going on in Iraq, naturally. I’m part of a large majority of people who don’t, but I do not know the whole story.
AL PACINO

Believe Country Go Know Large Majority Part People Story Whole

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