Being the actors of the craft, the trade, one of the big things you do and you learn is about repeating.
AL PACINOI 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.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Show me a bad script and I will show you a big payday.
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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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I like women who can cook. That’s first. Love is very important, but you’ve got to have a friend first.
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Love goes through different stages. But it endures.
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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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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.
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Women have always had equal importance onstage, and working with them must have altered my sensibilities.
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I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn’t want to be told what to do. I had no identification.
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I like, for instance, ‘Serpico.’ I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could – I could embody him. I could, you know.
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Many years ago, in the late ’70s, I toured colleges along the East Coast and I presented a kind of show where I got a lot of books and poetry and pieces of [William] Shakespeare and other writers that I admire.
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When you do these things, you sort of take the journey. The journey is all about how I can interweave the Oscar Wilde story.
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The interesting thing about this is I don’t know what my vision [ in Salome the play and Salomaybe] is yet about.
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The whole thing is, they never asked for it, that kingdom.
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Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.
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To be really obvious about something, if somebody straps an M1 on your shoulder and throws you in Iraq.
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