There is no happiness. There is only concentration.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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I want to be interesting in an interview just as much as I want to do well in a part.
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All I am is what I’m going after.
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You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
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I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great.
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The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.
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If you have the opportunity to meet someone as an actor, it’s just great fodder for you. It’s wonderful source stuff that we die for.
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I would say I am more concerned with the plays I’m going to do than the movies.
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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.
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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.
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[Marlon] Brando’s a giant on every level. When he acts it’s as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
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The fruit falls off the tree. You don’t shake it off before it’s ready to fall.
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We were doing Scarface many years ago…and I remember having my coffee and looking at the beach, the surf, and I saw a hundred people looking out into the ocean.
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Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies.
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After looking at Salomaybe, I don’t know who the hell the real me is. I think it’s closest now to the real me because for one thing, I’m used to this.
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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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