I probably write a poem every 50 years.
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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When I was a younger actor, I would try to keep it serious all day. But I have found, later on, that the lighter I am about things when I’m going to do a big scene that’s dramatic and takes a lot out of you, the better off I am when I come to it.
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That was the first thing I was struck by, not by the acting, not by anything else, but by the physicality.
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Except if something was maybe a play on television or some great television script.
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Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse
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It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.
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Opinions I have about anything are in my personal life.
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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We live in a world where the more you’re working, the more things you do. It’s a workaday world.
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Forget the career, do the work. If you feel what you are doing is on line and you’re going someplace and you have a vision and you stay with it, eventually things will happen.
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You’re going to get a sense of what the hell’s going on there. Boy, you’ll wake up fast when bullets are flying over your head.
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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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If something is working, don’t fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.
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The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
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Sometimes they are the same exact thing.
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I found that speaking live to people, young people, about what I liked and what had been happening to me was very good for me.
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