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 PACINOThe play will invariably be different and stronger, and much more fulfilling and richer on all counts. There’s no doubt in my mind about it.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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Larry Grobel has the illness of all writers, he can’t help himself.
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The story of Salome, the play itself and what it is, what it contains, and my journey as an actor, as a director, as a filmmaker, as a person struggling with whatever I’m struggling with.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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My grandfather was a provider. Work, any kind of work, was the joy of his life.
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Acting is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
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I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation.
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It was her way of getting out, and she would take me with her. I’d go home and act all the parts.
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I don’t talk politics and I don’t talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.
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Pretty soon I’ll start worrying about [my fame] because [my children] carry my name and they have that exposure.
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Shakespeare is one of the reasons I’ve stayed an actor. Sometimes I spend full days doing Shakespeare by myself, just for the joy of reading it, saying those words.
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Really, I didn’t know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother and grandfather, and by my mother.
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I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
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What kind of failure was it? A failure because it’s misunderstood by others? A failure because you misunderstood it yourself?
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I was watching Revolution, and the things I did in that picture, holy smokes! I can’t believe I did that, it’s like another person. It’s the thought of it, it’s just appalling to me.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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