I’ ve won awards. And they didn’t make me feel bad winning them.
AL PACINOIf I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
More Al Pacino Quotes
-
-
And I didn’t think about the material as much. But sometimes I’ve thought about the material a lot and thought I was doing the right thing, and it didn’t work out.
AL PACINO -
I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
AL PACINO -
We’re charlatans in a way, we’re magic people. Part of the behind the scenes stuff is to loosen you up, to make you feel that you are experiencing this. This is my style.
AL PACINO -
I don’t care if it’s a walk in the park, a look out the window, a good bubble bath – whatever. Even a meal you like, or a friend you want to call. That helps us solve all this stuff in our head.
AL PACINO -
When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you.
AL PACINO -
If I was a painter no one would question me about my age. I’m an artist, I hate saying that.
AL PACINO -
Any project that I find encouraging that isn’t attached to a studio, I can go to them, which I definitely would. You have to take an interest in what you do.
AL PACINO -
My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
AL PACINO -
I was shocked when I heard about Paul Newman retiring at age 82. Most actors just fade away like old soldiers.
AL PACINO -
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 -
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 -
That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
AL PACINO -
I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it,
AL PACINO -
Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
AL PACINO -
Lee Strasberg is like that, my grandfather was like that. These are the kinds of men I’ve had close relationships with.
AL PACINO