You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
AL PACINOTo be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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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.
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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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My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman.
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The difference between the actor and the painter is that the actor would buy somebody a knish in order to have them watch him act.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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I’m naturally shy but I’ve done this [movie Salomaybe] so much and you get better at it than you would think.
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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.
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I do Shakespeare when I am feeling a certain way.
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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…
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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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The only thing in this world that gives orders is balls.
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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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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.
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I wanted to be a baseball player, naturally, but I wasn’t good enough.
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“To be or not to be is” [by William Shakespeare] beyond anything I can comprehend.
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